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Stability of Minimal Surfaces and Eigenvalues of the Laplacian

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Let \(x:{\text M}\rightarrow \,\tilde{M}^{n}\) be a minimal immersion of a two-dimensional orientable manifold \({\text M}\) into an n-dimensional Riemannian manifold \(\tilde{M}^{n}.\)

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Barbosa, J.L., Carmo, M.d. (2012). Stability of Minimal Surfaces and Eigenvalues of the Laplacian. In: Tenenblat, K. (eds) Manfredo P. do Carmo – Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25588-5_15

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